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LED indicator for Programming Track doubling as Spur

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Posted by gandydancer19 on Tuesday, August 10, 2010 2:19 PM

My programming track is set up the same way.  (I don't use an LED.)

Assuming that you are using a DPDT switch to switch the track from programming to run (just like I do), you don't have much of a choice.  If you tie an LED to the track, you may interfere with the programming functions and you still won't know which it is set for.  The way I would do it is to use a different switch.  A Three Pole, Double Throw type.  Wire two poles just like you would the DPDT.  Then you can use the third pole (would act like a SPST) to switch one LED power wire from one LED to the other.

Elmer.

The above is my opinion, from an active and experienced Model Railroader in N scale and HO since 1961.

(Modeling Freelance, Eastern US, HO scale, in 1962, with NCE DCC for locomotive control and a stand alone LocoNet for block detection and signals.) http://waynes-trains.com/ at home, and N scale at the Club.

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LED indicator for Programming Track doubling as Spur
Posted by ScottinSC on Tuesday, August 10, 2010 12:28 PM

My Programming track is doubling as a Spur. I have it wired so that I can togle from one to the other using a DPDT switch. I would like to wire two LED's as indicators as to which is on. I know the direction of the toggle does this but I wanted a lighted indicator as well. How should I wire this. I did a search and found out how to wire the togle but I am not seeing anything on how to wire the LED's.

Thanks,

Scott   

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